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Tomás Ayuso/IRIN

  • The 280 km/h winds eradicated ancient forests that covered every canyon and valley on the island. Pockets of living foliage remain but the very identity of island is at stake. The thousand hues of green that covered Dominica have been stripped into a single shade of brown. Though Dominicans mourn the loss of their woodlands, they know, having survived Hurricane David in the 70s and Tropical Storm Erika just a few years before, that their tropical emerald canopy will grow once again

  • Credits Tomás Ayuso/IRIN
  • Themes Environment and Disasters Climate change
  • Regions Americas Dominica

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